Latter Quotes
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.
For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?
I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn.
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.
Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be.
If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.
We are the nation's watchmen, no other people collectively love the Constitution and honor it and hold it as a divinely inspired document as do the Latter-day Saints.
There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately as the latter increase.
The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.
We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.
Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.
TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange and undignified.
Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.
No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves
When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.
Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons.
Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines.
Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.
Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.
God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.
To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.
There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.
There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)
Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In the latter case, there is always a path of learning leading to the right way.
Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.
All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.
Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED
Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.
If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.
The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.
Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry, and coffee is said to induce chastity.
I understand polyamory is different from polygamy, and doesn't share the latter's rigid and noxious views that men run the show and are the only ones allowed multiple partners.
In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church.
Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.
Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are created by many incremental improvements.
The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but it also passes on a critical attitude towards them.
We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.
Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst.
By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.
This will equally apply to every Latter-day Saint. Salvation is an individual operation.
Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.